In the new Anne Rice book, Of Love and Evil, the main character in that book is a Renaissance lute player named Toby O'Dare. At the end of the book, in the Author's Note, she writes:
"With regard to the Renaissance lute, I listened to a good deal of music while writing this book, but was singularly inspired by a compact disc called The Renaissance Lute by Ronn McFarlane. Let me recommend to the listener selection No. 7, entitled only 'Pessemeze'. This piece of music proved particularly haunting, and I imagine my hero, Toby, playing it during his concluding hours in Renaissance Italy."